Hard Quotes

It is hard to compare the eras, but Joe Jackson and Ty Cobb from the past, Sandy Koufax and Roger Clements from the present.

It is deep January. The sky is hard. The stalks are firmly rooted in ice.

Many of the old masters of watercolour painted from notes, with enthusiasm either unabated or renewed. It is hard to assume the same degree of concentration in the studio, but not impossible.

It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.

Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.

In no direction that we turn do we find ease or comfort. If we are honest and if we have the will to win we find only danger, hard work and iron resolution.

What the Secretary of Agriculture is trying to do is to teach the farmer corn acreage control, and the hogs birth control, and one is just as hard to make understand it as the other.

If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.

I challenge every business person in America who has ever complained about the failure of the welfare system to try to hire somebody off welfare. And try hard.

As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate!

My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.

Before thee stands this fair Hesperides, With golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched; For death-like dragons here affright thee hard.

I think of doing a series as very hard work. But then I've talked to coal miners, and that's really hard work.

As wit is too hard for power in council, so power is too hard for wit in action.

Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.

Every woman must admit, and every man with as much sense as a woman, that it's very hard to make a home for any man if he's always in it.

I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

An album is a project with which you have to hit hard.

The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.

Hard times always uncover the basic goodness and evil of the day.

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.

I'm a very feminine person, but I have this hard shell, man, and I stay focused and don't take things personally.

In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard.

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

The goal was never dependent on the route that took me there. It was always dependent on the heart that got me through whatever route opened itself up to my efforts.

Affliction is a good man's shining time.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

In the end, the greatest victory we can know is the result of all of our hard work, discipline, and dedication: the realization of our dreams.

You can be strong as any boy if you'll work hard and train yourself in athletics, the way boys do.

I'm a firm believer in if you work hard you should play hard. So I try to keep my life as balanced as possible to keep my sanity.

I work hard, and I tend to play hard. I very seldom rest hard.

The Lord's way is not hard. Life is hard, not the gospel.

I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

I'm having a hard time finding a date. I don't trust any women I meet. I'm very skeptical.

Dream, believe, work hard and succeed.

Great readers, great listeners, and all have great work ethics. ... They work hard at what they do and they're devout to their reading and listening.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

I have a hard time watching films and not thinking how I would play any part, whether its a man or a woman.

Work hard, think fast and you'll last.

There are two things for a marriage to be good. One is to work hard on it. The other one is to marry above you. And I succeeded at both of those.

Whether you're on TV or on the stage, you have to work hard to stay fresh, real, and full of energy. You can't settle back. You always have to stay on your toes.

I think it has a lot to do with determination. I treat people the way I want to be treated and believe if you work hard you can have the things you want in life.

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

Whatever success people have in a field, it's a result of hard work. If you ultimately succeed in one place, you must have worked hard there or somewhere else.

I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a hard time hanging them up at home.

If you go out with a girl and they say she has a great personality, she's ugly. If they tell you a guy works hard, he can't play a lick. Same thing.